Strange debugger behavior

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Tom Carey <wtcarey at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm reasonably new to FP. Working on 4.05.07 DOS (
> dont' ask).
> 
> I find that the debugger seems to do things that I
> don't expect. I have a series of statements on a
> @wlf that check the @SK to see if it was an ENTR or
> SAVE key and branch off to different routines based
> on the key stroke and other combined conditions.
> 
> If I single step thru the code, the first line
> correctly tests the @SK. Subsequent lines don't seem
> to preserve the @SK  correctly, so the test for a
> SAVE key does not show as true. I am using the "S"
> key to single step thru the code. 
> 
> I have used show statements to prove that the first
> line of code is correctly testing the @SK.  And I
> did figure out that the show"@\...." required a
> keystroke to clear the message and that entered a
> new key stroke into the @SK vlaue. So I quit doing
> that.
> 
> Does the "S" keystroke used to single step replace
> the @SK value?
> 
> If I single step thru this code I wind up in
> different code than I do when I execute it without
> the debugger. 
> 
> Thanks
> Tom Carey> 

Yes, the debugger does interfere with the @sk values.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHImport and JHExport. The fastest and
easiest ways to create code for filePro Imports and
Exports. 

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